Through the Garden Gate
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From her time as Leverhulme Poet in Residence at Moorbank, Newcastle University's Botanic Garden, Linda has created a new pamphlet, Through the Garden Gate, illustrated with drawings by Kim Lewis. This will be available from Moorbank, NCLA and other outlets, including the Hatton Gallery and the Great North Museum.
Working with Alec Peever, Linda has also written a poem for a sculpture in the Desert House at Moorbank, referencing the University's research into Night Photosynthesis in arid regions.
A NGS Open Day at Moorbank is scheduled for 23rd October 2011. 2012 Dates: Sunday 11th March (2 - 5pm); Wednesday 2nd May (5 - 8pm); Wednesday 4th July (5 - 8pm); Sunday 19th August (1 - 4pm)
Everywhere is Eden
Building on her work at Moorbank and the potential for collaborative links there, Linda is posting a blog for poetry and plant related enquiry. You can read it at everywherewaseden.wordpress.com.
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Spadework
During the winter months, Linda will be offering workshops for the Poetry School on some Saturday mornings at Brunswick Methodist Church, Newcastle. This course is intended as a space to refresh your relationship with poetry, wherever you are with it, and try new approaches in a relaxed and friendly environment. Two hours of reading and writing – a fine way to start your weekend. Who knows where it might lead. Click here for more details »
Geography is Destiny
Linda will be teaching a new short course rooted in our experience of place at Newcastle University.
Poetry: The Spirit of Place
A strong sense of place informs many of the world’s most enduring and best-loved poems. In these practical workshops we will explore various interpretations of American poet Maxine Kumin’s assertion ‘Location is where we start from.’
6 weekly sessions from 10th November, 2011
All sessions take place on Thursday evenings, 5pm to 7pm, at Newcastle University.
To book a place call 0191 222 7619 or email melanie.birch@ncl.ac.uk
From Ariel to The Zoo Father
The Poetry Room, a poetry book reading group at Newcastle City Library, hosted by Linda and Anna Woodford, continues to go from strength to strength. It is a space for close reading and discussion of a new collection of poems every month – on the first Tuesday, 6–8pm. See www.poetrybookgroup.com for more details.
book of days
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Linda’s year renga – book of days – apparently the world’s first, is published by Smokestack Books.
According to Bulgarian poet Kristin Dimitrova:
"Linda's book is perfection itself. I read it in quarterly instalments (or seasons, more or less) because to rush it would have meant to waste it. And somehow Linda managed to give me a hint, a paradox, an impression, a straightforward story or a taste of every single day she spent in 2006, and she did it just in three or two lines. Of course, somewhere between January and February I took a peep at May 19 to see what was there for my birthday. So I confess, I used it as a Chinese fortune cookie as well."
Each month is introduced by one of Sue Dunne’s delicate ceramic reliefs cast from the flora of the Northumbrian countryside. Sue has also made a series of 12 framed pieces incorporating a single ceramic fragment accompanied by a verse from that month. A perfect gift, these are available from her studio at Ochrelands, Hexham.
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